Fig. 21.1 Members of the New York Society of Anesthesiologists’ Committee on Fellowships. (Courtesy of the New York State Society of Anesthesiologists, New York, NY.) Francis McMechan established the International…
Fig. 36.1 Magaw at the head of the table, giving what appears to be ether anesthesia. (Courtesy of the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists Archive.) In the article, Magaw said:…
Fig. 22.1 George Crile Sr. who was of one of the founders of Cleveland Clinic. (Courtesy of the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists Archives.) Fig. 22.2 Agatha Hodgins. (Courtesy of…
Fig. 19.1 Adolph Erdmann, founder of the Long Island Society of Anesthetists (LISA). (From the Wood Memorial Library-Museum of Anesthesiology, Park Ridge, IL) Erdmann was not the first to believe…
Fig. 4.1 John Snow Snow Tells How to Give Anesthesia In 1847, the medical community needed to know how to deliver anesthesia smoothly and safely and how to control the…
Date Country City Anesthesia Surgery Anesthetist 11 Mar 1847 Cuba La Habana Ether Hydrocele V de Castro 29 Mar 1847 Mexico Velacruz Ether Wound repair E Barton 29 Apr 1847…
Fig. 31.1 Seishu Hanaoka. (Open source) In 1850, Seikei Sugita (1817–1859) translated the Dutch version of J. Schlesinger’s monograph on ether anesthesia (in German) into Japanese. He also coined the…
Fig. 46.1 Edmund Andrews. (Photograph of portrait, Feinberg School of Medicine Library, courtesy of the EIE collection) The First Half of the Twentieth Century The first half of the twentieth…
Fig. 51.1 Carl Koller (1857–1944) is recognized as the discoverer of the usefulness of cocaine for local anesthesia. (Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD) While Koller is…
Fig. 8.1 Countries with more anesthetists than the median in 2006, of 160 members, formed societies roughly one-and-a-half to three decades sooner than those having less than the median. (Data…
